Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilson and other students, the process of getting into Saturday's night formal at the Wang Center in Boston was difficult. Tickets went on sale December 2 for Quad residents. But after all 600 were bought up by mid-week, some students with tickets sold them for a profit, while others tried to print and sell counterfeits...
Chiu said planners tried to prevent scalping. But organizers knew that if someone really wanted to sell that if someone really wanted to sell tickets for profit, there was no definite way to stop them...
...Pentagon and its suppliers are coming up with innovative ways to keep factories humming. The Air Force, for example, wants to sell some 300 used F-16s to such countries as Indonesia, Morocco, the Philippines and others that cannot afford new ones. It will then use the $2 billion profit from the sales to buy 75 new F-16s for itself. The McDonnell Douglas Corp. is helping Kuwait sell its fleet of A-4 attack planes, hoping that Kuwait will use the proceeds to buy the company's F-18s and AH-64 helicopters...
...founded in 1876 and is a non-profit organization. It has a membership of nearly 150,000 chemists and chemical engineers and is recognized as a world leader in fostering scientific education and research, and in promoting public understanding of science...
...crusade to slim down the one-third of Americans believed to be overweight, kicked off his "Shape Up America!" campaign at a White House ceremony today. At his side: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, with whom he joined forces on health care reform. Launch of the non-profit Koop Foundation's effort was timed to follow a report from the Institute of Medicine describing the difficulties of shedding pounds and attacking commercial weight-loss programs for causing ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized Koop for sending a message that overweight people could...